Curtain hold back



I Feb. 26, 1957 s. P. SADLOSKI ETAL 2,782,849

CURTAIN HOLD BACK Filed Oct. 12, 1954 mmvrogs. $7Z4A/LEY P. 540mm! BYCLAE4 I SADLOJ'KI A TI'OPIVEX nited States Patent 2,782,849 PatentedFeb. 26, 1957 CURTAIN HOLD BACK Stanley P. Sadloski and Clara J.Sadloski, New Britain, Conn.

Application October 12, 1954, Serial No. 461,832

7 Claims. (Cl. 160-330) This invention relates to curtain fixtures andmore particularly to improved hold hacks for curtains or draperies foradjustable insertion within the interior of a pair of telescoping hollowcurtain rod sections.

One object of the present invention is to provide a device of the abovenature which will be simple in construction, non-scratchable,inexpensive to manufacture, easy to install and manipulate, compact,ornamental in appearance, and very eilicient and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, there has been illustrated on theaccompanying drawing one form in which the invention may conveniently beembodied in practice.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of the improved curtain hold back,shown by itself.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, taken along theline 3-3 of Fig. 2, and illustrating the interior U-shaped reinforcingwire.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an angular tubular flat curtain rodsection, with one of the hold back units frictionally assembled therein.

Fig. 5 is a front view of a pair of assembled telescoped curtain rodsections, shown on a smaller scale, with a pair of the hold backsadjustably mounted therein, and showing in dotted lines the position ofthe pair of curtains held by said hold backs.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a curtain rod section with acorrugated hold back frictionally held therein.

Referring now to the drawing in which like reference numerals denotecorresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 10indicates a transparent plastic corrugated hold back or stop for aslidable curtain or drapery. The hold back 10 is provided with three V-shaped upper corners 11, 12 and 13, a pair of bottom V-shaped cornersand 16, and an upcurled extremity 14 depending a short distance belowthe corners 15 and 16.

At the opposite end of the hold back 10 from the extremity 14, provisionis made of a reduced neck portion 14a flexibly connected with anupcurled end 17, which is joined to a fiat inclined stop section 18having an inwardly and downturned extremity 19, as clearly shown inFigures 1 to 3 of the drawing.

Embedded within the interior of the plastic hold back device 10 is aU-shaped reinforcing corrugated wire 20 which extends from a point justshort of the extremity 14 to a point just short of the extremity 19.

The present curtain hold back stops 10 are adapted to be inserted withinthe interior of a pair of elbow shaped hollow slotted curtain rodsection-s 21 and 22, and will be frictionally held in any desiredadjusted positions therein.

The ends of the curtain rods 21, 22 are upturned at 23, 24 fordetachable connection with a pair of window orackets, not shown.

Fig. 5 clearly illustrates, in dotted lines, the appearance of a pair of,slidable curtains 25, 26 which are held in symmetrically-spacedposition by means of the stop sections 18 of the corrugated hold backs10.

Operation In the operation of this invention, a pair of corrugated holdback stops 10 will be inserted into the open central ends of the pair oftubular slotted hollow curtain rod sections 21, 22, which sections willthen be telescoped into the positions shown in Fig. 5.

The hold backs 10 will then be adjusted manually within said rodsections 21, 22, so as to hold the curtains 25, 26 symmetrically in anydesired separated relation.

While the improved hold back stop will preferably be made from a stripof transparent plastic material, it will be understood that it may alsobe made from a metal strip or a loop of wire within the spirit and scopeof this invention.

While there has been disclosed in this specification one form in whichthe invention may be embodied, it is to be understood that this form isshown for the purpose of illustration only and that the invention is notlimited to the specific disclosure, but may be modified and embodied invarious other equivalent forms, without departing from its spirit. Inshort, the invention includes all the modifications and embodimentscoming within the scope of the following claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new andfor which it is desired to secure Letters Patent is:

1. In an adjustable curtain hold back to be slidably received in aconventional hollow C-shaped curtain rod section, a flexiblelongitudinally extending strip having a plurality of transversecorrugations formed therein to slidably engage opposite inner faces ofsaid curtain rod section, one extremity of said strip terminating beyondthe vertical limits of one of said corrugations to frictionally engageone of said inner faces, the other extremity being upwardly curled toprovide an integrally formed stop section to engage a curtain slidablysupported on said curtain rod section.

2. The invention as defined in claim 1, wherein said curtain hold backmeans is formed of plastic strip material.

3. In an adjustable stop means for a conventional hollow curtain rodsection provided with a longitudinal slot, a flexible longitudinallyextending member to be slidably received in said curtain nod, saidmember having two longitudinally spaced downwardly projecting portionsto bear against one inside face of the rod, and having an upwardlyprojecting portion disposed longitudinally between said downwardlyprojecting portions to bear against the opposite inside face of the rod,all of said projecting portions being disposed to be received within thecross section of said curtain rod adjacent the edges of said slot, saidmember being normally formed to subtend over its length a space ofgreater thickness than a conventional curtain rod so as to require themember to be longitudinally flexed to be inserted therein, and anintegrally formed stop section projecting upwardly from one end of saidmember.

4. The invention as defined in claim 1, in which the upper end of saidstop section is curled downwardly and inwardly to provide a smoothfrictional engagement with the interior of said curtain rod section.

5. The invention as defined in claim 2, in which said corrugated stop isprovided with a longitudinally extending resilient reinforcing meansembedded within the interior thereof.

6. The invention as defined in claim 5, in which said remforcing meanscomprises a U-shaped wire.

7. In an adjustable curtain hold back to be slidably received in a.conventional hollow C-shaped curtain rod section, a flexible integrallyformed plastic strip shaped to slidably engage within opposite innerfaces of said curtain rod section, one extremity of said strip extendingupwardly above the opposite inner faces of the curtain rod section toprovide an integrally formed stop section to engage a curtain slidablysupported on said curtain rod section.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS827,000 Dinsmore July 24, 1906 Straubel Dec. 31, 1929 Kirsch Jan. 9,1934 Mitchell Nov. 23, 1954 FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain Dec. 14, 1908Austria June 10, 1951

